Any event which makes you forget that tomorrow is Monday, and you’re back to work again, is worthy of repeating. I just enjoyed dinner with my sister-in-law and brother-in-law and their spouses and kids. Chaos, of course, with six adults, five kids (and one on the way), but a reminder why extended families — when they work — are really amazing. I missed my siblings (none in the Bay Area) and I look forward to when they have families, but through my wife’s family I get to kindle this kind of solid and comforting connection. And it draws deeper lines between my children and their first cousins, which they will treasure as they get older.